Niemi - aging starter playing terrible
Lehotonen - aging starter playing terrible
Meanwhile Dallas has no goalie prospect ready to move up
Signing Bishop and buying out one of your crap starters makes sense here.
Howard - aging starter still playing great, but plagued with a groin of glass
Mrazek - young starter playing terrible, but will most likely bounce back
Coreau in the pipes to take one of these starters spots in the near future.
Signing Bishop to 5 mil for 6 years makes zero sense here.
The net is by farrrrrr not the position of need on this team. This is just drum beating by the anti Holland crowd who look for every excuse to go "REEEEEEE GM X SIGNED PLAYER X AND HOLLAND DIDNT, HOLLAND MUST DIE"
I get that there's not much hockey news right now, but Nill signing Bishop has no bearing on the Detroit Red Wings. Plenty of teams (who actually desperately need starting goalies) were rumored to be interested in Bishop. We were not one of those teams. And rightly so. The wings should be focused on shedding a goalie, not adding one, especially at that price and term.
Dallas will most likely buyout Niemi as been reported. But even with this, Nill will still have a ton money locked up in his goalies, and now a buyout on top of it. I think Bishop will work out for them, but it would be absolutely hilarious if the pads shrink and Big Ben gets exposed. Nill will be in one of the biggest holes dug by a GM at that point, and that may actually be some good drama.